Improved splice for railroad-rails



. appliedto the vibratory rail. v

Figure 2 is a transverse view of the rail, showing key. ,L Figure 5 is a horizontal view of the face of the nut SIDNEY A, BEEIRSyOF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

Leners Patent No. 83,446, dated come 27, 186s.

IMPRovi-:D SPLICE FoR'RAiLRoAn-RAILS.

The Schedule referred'bo in these Letters Patent and making part of the sam'e.

To all whm it 'ma/y concern: Y

Beit known that I, SIDNEY A. Bnnns, ofthe city of Brooklyn, State of New York, have invented a new and improved Method of. Securing and Maintaining a gore Perfect Joint at the Connection of Railroadails, when placed in position for use in the track; l and'I do hereby declare that the following is a full and x from working loose by a key, resting in a slot in the point of the bolt, and corresponding slots across the face of the nut.

Tovenable others to-apply and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the form and application of the dii'erentparts embraced in the arrangement.

Figurell is a transverse view of the lock-joint, as

the slot in the end. Figure 3 is a transverse view of the lock-joint, when applied to the common T-rail.

Figure 4 is 'a horizontal view of the flat bolt and and slots.

Figure 6 is a vertical view of the slot and key, as

I rail.

face, and which rim is slotted, to receive the edgepof the key.

Letter d, a side4 view of the key, resting in the slot in the head of the bolt. 4

Letter e shows'the edge of the fiat bolt, passing through a .mortise in the iishing-plate, and a corresponding mortise formed by a slot in the end of both rails, at the point.

Letter a, g. 3, is a transverse view of the common Trail.

Letters b l1, shing-plates.

Letter c, a side view of the nut.

Letter d, the fiat bolt, resting in mortses, the Asame as in iig. 1, and showing the slot in the head of the b olt, to receive the ke Letter a, iig. 4, a horizontal view fof the dat bolt, with slot, to receive the wedge.

'Letter b, a side view of the; key, resting in the slot.

Fig. 5 represents the face of the nut, with slots cut across the rim or projection on'the face of the nut, and intended to receive the edge of the key, when driven into place.'

l Fig. 6 represents the key, as 4applied to the slot in the bolt a.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, ise The combination and arrangement of the flat bolt and nut with shing-plates, as illustrated by letter e,

iig. l, and letter c, iig. 3, when applied to any form of also, the device for preventing the nut iiom working loose, as illustrated by letters c and (l, in iig. l,

l whether used separately or in combination, for the purposes above set forth. V

SIDNEYl A. BEERS. Witnesses:

MrLo HATCH, J onn CRoMP'roN. 

